Tributes from Margaret Atwood, Stephen King and more have poured in in the wake of her passing. <\/p>
Canadian writer and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro has died at the age of 92 in her home in Port Hope, Ontario, her publisher confirmed.<\/p>\n
In a statement published on the Penguin Random House Canada site, Kristin Cochrane, the company\u2019s chief executive officer, said: \u201cAlice Munro is a national treasure \u2014 a writer of enormous depth, empathy, and humanity whose work is read, admired, and cherished by readers throughout Canada and around the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlice\u2019s writing inspired countless writers too, and her work leaves an indelible mark on our literary landscape. All of us at Penguin Random House Canada mourn this loss and we join together with our colleagues at Penguin Random House in the US, the UK, and globally in appreciation for all that Alice Munro has left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
A prolific writer often compared to Russian great Anton Chekhov, Munro published 13 story collections, two volumes of selected stories and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to tell a story in the old-fashioned way \u2014 what happens to somebody,\u201d she told Vintage Books of her approach in 1998. \u201cBut I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the \u2018what happens\u2019 but the way everything happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her work earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013, with the committee referring to her as a \u201cmaster of contemporary short story\u201d.<\/p>\n
Writer Stephen King echoed the sentiment on X (formerly known as Twitter), where he praised Munro for being \u201cone of the absolute best at the short story\u201d.<\/p>\n
What Heidi said. Alice Munro, one of the absolute best at the short story. https:\/\/t.co\/zp91xIJJoV<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>